Author's Purpose

Pennsylvania Core and Academic Education Standards. The Author's Purpose is the reason that the author wrote the piece. If the author's purpose is to inform, he/she plans to teach the reader. If the author's purpose is to entertain, he/she plans to amuse the reader. If the author's purpose is to persuade, he/she plans to convince the reader to believe his/her point of view. If the author's purpose is to create a mood, he/she plans to use much description to stir emotions in the reader. Read More...

The resources above correspond to the standards listed below:

Pennsylvania Core and Academic Standards

PA.CC.1.2.7.Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text—with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.

Craft and Structure: Point of View

CC.1.2.7.D.Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.